Author Archives: spinginnie

This week’s projects include: My projects for this past week: new handspun mittens dyed with euphorbia (weed) from my yard. I sewed buttons on to my latest sweater with is wool and mohair from my stash: I finished sewing a shirt from a pattern that I last sewed 45 years ago. It’s a little hardContinue reading “5 February 2023”

Time to reactivate this blog. I started this blog to support myself in finishing projects. I have been absent for 18 months or more because I have been distracted by enormous life events concerning my beloved son’s welfare. These concerns continue, but hopefully the situation will be more under control. In the meantime, I needContinue reading “29 January 2023”

It’s been a long time since I have written. Time to just start over with what I am currently doing. Spinning: Just finished up a fleece of unknown origin. It is a soft, fine dark brown fleece, probably from New South Wales. It was a pleasure to spin and ply. I think I may weaveContinue reading “6 June 2021”

It’s been two months. I’ve done a lot of work, so I have some catching up to do. Some years ago I knit this mitten out of handspun yarn in the Swedish technique of twined knitting or tvandstickning. It is knitting done with two ends, and the yarns are twined around one another after everyContinue reading “29 November 2020”

Time, past time, to post. I’ve been doing a lot of deep cleaning lately to cope with anxiety and inability to listen to the news. Nevertheless, I’ve gotten a few things done fiber wise. A while back I had sprinkle dyed some of Wobyn’s fleece. I decided to flick it and spin it lock byContinue reading “27 September 2020”

I’ve been busy doing, not writing about doing. I need to catch up. I’ve had this book on my shelf for several years. I remember that I got it at the Textile Center in St. Paul, MN. I’ve drooled over these photos and read over the techniques time and again. This month I decided toContinue reading “29 August 2020”

I decided to empty my looms because I haven’t woven much in almost a year. My Macomber has a sample warp on it for me to play around with weaving thrums. That was fun, and I wove several inches of a bunch of different patterns, but it is slow, and I tired of it. SoContinue reading “7 August 2020”

A month it has been. Time flies in a pandemic when every day feels the same. I have been spinning, a lot. I am almost finished with the fleece of VaVaVoom from 2012. I am currently spinning the last two skeins from that fleece, dyed with coreopsis and overdyed with onion skins. That will makeContinue reading “27 July 2020”

Well. It has been a while. Besides still planting, I have to admit I have felt weighed down by the woes of the world in the past weeks. I have not had enough mental energy to problem solve regarding my fiber UFOs. I’m not faulting myself for that. I still have been busy but withContinue reading “27 June 2020”

I have been focused on planting since the weather has finally warmed up. There is always such a narrow window. And I have not been blogging though I have been steadily working on fiber projects. Nothing on the Norwegian sweater yet. I have to push myself to get going on that. I finished spinning theContinue reading “10 June 2020”